Immigrant Centuries

2023 Annual Postcard Show

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Postcard by Sofie Carmi.

June 30–July 30, 2023 Opening reception: Friday, June 30 from 5–7pm

Victoria Alexander, Xy Anka, Clare Asch, Stephanie Bernheim, Sofia Carmi, Lindsey Carstairs, Aurore Chabot, Lisa Cooperman, Elke Daemmrich, Maks Dannecker, Tiyah Davenport, Susan Davey, Karla Dipuglia, Anjoniq' Dixon, Kathleen Dobrowsky, Yvette Drury Dubinsky Bo Ellison, Patricia Erbelding, Paris Farria, Amelie Feldstein, Lia Fernandez, Kiani Ferris, Mia Fieldman, Katherine Filice, luliana Foghis, Maria Gaball, Katherine Gan, Angel Gardner, Alondra Garza, Maxine Henryson, Sabetty Heyaime, Tenid Hill, Hugo Houayek, Cheri Ibes, Damian Iordanov, Monique Islam, Melinda Kiefer, Carole Kunstadt, Molmol Kuo, Ani Lacy, Gudrun Latten, Dara Levine-Hillis, Tatianna Lewis, Marivel Liriano, Uschi Lüdemann, Romi Marckx, Zoey Marsh, Amelia Marzec, Heather Mawson, Stefana McClure, Susan McDormand, Meagan Meehan, Masha Morgunova, Reine Morris, Raykell Mosley, Kaden Mullinix, Sylvia Netzer, Barbara Penn, Cozette Russell, Shreya Sahai, Christopher Santiago, Amy Scarola, Ann Schaumburger, Lique Schoot, Parisa Shabani, Aura Shahaf, Penko Shaitanov, Foroozan Shirghani, Andrea Sifuentes, SMdLC, Laura Smith, Nancy Storrow, Rafaelina Tineo, Carla Valerie, Savannah Warrington, Heather Weathers, Lena Wennberg, Cynthia Winika, Christine Wong, Debra Wright, Plamen Yordanov, Snejana Yordanova, Se Yim Young, Abby

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to present Immigrant Centuries, the 2023 edition of its annual Postcard Show. Each year, hundreds of artists come together to support A.I.R. by donating a postcard-sized work in any medium. Each original work is sold for $45 and all proceeds go to benefit A.I.R. and its mission to advance the work of women and non-binary artists. This year’s postcard show borrows its title from Alberto Ríos’s poem of the same name. Ríos writes:

These are immigrant times

And the lines are long,

The signs for jobs few,

The songs sadder, the air meaner.

Everyone is hungry.

Everyone is willing.

Jobs are not jobs but lives lived

Hard at the work of being human.

These are immigrant times,

And the lines are long again.

Published in 2020, Ríos’s poem reflects the debates about immigration that dominated that year’s presidential election, spurred by then-candidate Donald J. Trump’s call for Muslims to be denied entry to the country and for a physical border wall to be built between Mexico and the United States. But its title reminds the reader that American immigration has a much longer history. Marked by a tension between surplus and scarcity, the poem juxtaposes concrete statements about current economic conditions with more abstract invocations of feeling and shared humanity.

View the Press Release here.

Photography by Sebastian Bach